List of Famous People From Kansas

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Below is a list of famous people that were born in Kansas.

List of Famous Artists From Kansas

Grace Bilger
Blackbear Bosin
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
John Steuart Curry
Aaron Douglas
Edgar Heap of Birds
Barbara Morgan
Gordon Parks
Jim Richardson
Birger Sandzen
Gary Mark Smith

List of Famous Authors From Kansas

Laura Abbot author of Harlequin romance novels Kansas City Kansas.
Gwendolyn Brooks
William Burroughs
Don Coldsmith
Mary Francis Craig
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Thomas Frank
Jane Heap
Scott Heim
Langston Hughes
William Inge
Bill James
Scott Phillips
Vance Randolph
Red Reeder
Richard Rhodes
Damon Runyon
William Stafford
Max Yoho

List of Famous Musicians From Kansas

Karrin Allyson jazz performer Great Bend Kansas.
Chris Burnett
Danny Carey
Dorothy DeLay
Phil Ehart
Melissa Etheridge
Wendell Hall
Louis Thomas Hardin
Nora Holt
Dave Hope
Eva Jessye
Jennifer Knapp
Katrina Leskanich
Kerry Livgren
Frank Luther
Martina McBride
Andy McKee
Janelle Monáe
Charlie Parker
Samuel Ramey
Steven Stucky
Joe Walsh
Bobby Watson
David Wetzel
Chely Wright
Gordon Young
Joe Don Rooney

List of Famous Athletes From Kansas

John H. Adams
Elden Auker
Chase Austin
Thane Baker
Judy Bell
Clint Bowyer
Orville Brown
Larry Cheney
Jack Christiansen
Tony Clark
Nolan Cromwell
Glenn Cunningham
Johnny Damon
Eldon Danenhauer
Wantha Davis
Joey Devine
Lynn Dickey
Larry Drew
Brian Duensing
Brody Eldridge
Maurice Evans
Galen Fiss
Maurice Greene
Bobby Henrich
Shaun Hill
Lionel Hollins
Scott Huffman
Walter Johnson
Franklin Lashley
Danny Manning
Rudy May
Archie “Hap” McKain
Peter Mehringer
Jordy Nelson
Jon McGraw professional football player Riley Kansas
Terence Newman
Nicole Ohlde
John Parrella
Dustin Richardson
John Riggins
Lafayette Russell
Johnny Rutherford
Jim Ryun
Barry Sanders
Gale Sayers
Wayne Simien
Darren Sproles
Jackie Stiles
Steve Tasker
Luther Haden “Dummy” Taylor
Earl Watson
Tom Watson
Kendra Wecker
Jess Willard
Lynette Woodard
Brad Ziegler

List of Famous Coaches From Kansas

Phog Allen
Jeremy Bates
Jack Christiansen
Larry Drew
Don Gambril
Bill Guthridge
Ted Gilmore
Ralph Houk
Gene Keady
Jerry Kill
Lon Kruger
John McLendon
Billie Moore
James Naismith
John H. Outland
Adolph Rupp
Brian Schottenheimer
Dean Smith
Eddie Sutton
Mark Turgeon
Brent Venables

List of Famous Aviators and astronauts From Kansas

Clyde Vernon Cessna
Walter Herschel Beech
Amelia Earhart
Joe Engle
Ronald Evans
Daniel Forbes
Steve Hawley
Lloyd Carlton Stearman

List of Famous Business People and Inventors From Kansas

Philip Anschutz
Dan and Frank Carney
Walter Chrysler
William Coffin Coleman
James Harbord
William Wadsworth Hodkinson
Charles G. Koch
David H. Koch
Harry F. Sinclair
Russell Stover

List of Famous Actors and performers From Kansas

Brandon Adams
Kirstie Alley
Fatty Arbuckle
Ed Asner
Gerry Bamman
Hugh Beaumont
Annette Bening
Roscoe Born
Steve Brodie
Louise Brooks
Madge Blake
Petrea Burchard
Del Close
Jack Colvin
Aneta Corsaut
Lucinda Dickey
Marj Dusay
R. Lee Ermey
Bill Farmer
Tamara Feldman
Scott Foley
Dwight Frye
Alan Fudge
Laurel Goodwin
Phyllis Haver
Thelma Hill
Dennis Hopper
Jayne Houdyshell
Don Johnson
Neal Jones
Buster Keaton
Emmett Kelly
Shirley Knight
Lila Leeds
Hattie McDaniel
George Murdock
Cassandra Peterson
ZaSu Pitts
Rob Riggle
Charles “Buddy” Rogers
Paul Rudd
Kendall Schmidt
Angus Scrimm
Max Showalter
Cynthia Sikes
Lois Smith
David Rees Snell
Sara Sothern
Milburn Stone
Jason Sudeikis
Fay Tincher
Vivian Vance
Dee Wallace-Stone
Jason Wiles
Claire Windsor

List of Famous Directors From Kansas

Michael Almereyda
Steve Balderson
Darren Lynn Bousman
Chris Buck
Eric Darnell director writer songwriter animator Prairie Village Kansas.
Randall Duell
Alex Graves
Oscar Micheaux
Gordon Parks
Richard Thorpe

List of Famous Journalists From Kansas

Frank Marshall Davis
Steve Doocy
E. W. Howe
Bill Kurtis
Jim Lehrer
Elizabeth Farnsworth
Melissa McDermott
Clementine Paddleford
Eugene C. Pulliam
Roy A. Roberts
John Cameron Swayze
William Allen White

List of Famous Politicians and Lawyers From Kansas

Arthur Capper
Frank Carlson
Georgia Neese Clark
Samuel J. Crawford
Charles Curtis
Harry Darby
George Docking
Bob Dole
Dwight Eisenhower
Joan Finney
Marlin Fitzwater
Robert Gates
Robert L. Gernon
Dan Glickman
Bill Graves
Paul Ranous Greever
Gary Hart
Carl Hatch
Ural Alexis Johnson
Nancy Kassebaum Baker
Alf Landon
Roger Noriega
Gale Norton
Lawton Nuss
Roy Romer
Susanna M. Salter
Bradley Schlozman
Harold Sebring
Arlen Specter
Martin E. Trapp
Harry Hines Woodring
Ron Wyden

List of Famous Scientists and programmers From Kansas

C. Olin Ball
John D. Carmack
George Washington Carver
David Fairchild
Philip Fox
Ebbe Hoff
Homer A. McCrerey
Karl Menninger
Charles D. Michener
Lou Montulli a founding engineer at Netscape and responsible for many HTML and web innovations.
Ernest Fox Nichols
Wallace Pratt
George Tiller
Clyde Tombaugh
Samuel Wendell Williston
Douglas Youvan

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